Daisy Miller

When Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence." The Millers have no perception of the complex code that underlies behavior in European society, and Winterbourne is astonished at the girl's unworldliness and her mother's unconcern with Daisy's behavior. Months later, Daisy is compromised when she is seen with an Italian man. Publicly, Winterbourne defends her as simply uncultivated, but privately, he hesitates.